Wildfly Insights

What is Wildfly?

WildFly is a flexible, open-source application server written in Java that helps you build and deploy amazing applications. It is commonly used for enterprise Java applications, supporting technologies like Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE). It provides a robust platform for deploying and managing web applications, microservices, and other enterprise-level software.

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What other technologies are related to Wildfly?

Wildfly Competitor Technologies

JBoss

JBoss is the community project behind WildFly. While not directly competitive, they represent different development and release cycles of the same core technology, serving similar purposes as application servers.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 6% (2.8k) of relevant job posts

Tomcat

Tomcat is a servlet container, a lighter alternative to full Java EE application servers like WildFly. It primarily handles web applications, whereas WildFly offers a broader range of Java EE features.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 3% (2.8k) of relevant job posts

WebLogic

WebLogic is a commercial Java EE application server from Oracle. It competes directly with WildFly in the enterprise application server market.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 3% (1k) of relevant job posts

Glassfish

GlassFish is another Java EE application server. It is an open-source project that can serve as a reference implementation for the Java EE standards, and competes directly with WildFly.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 10% (205) of relevant job posts

WebSphere

WebSphere is a commercial Java EE application server from IBM. It competes directly with WildFly in the enterprise application server market.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 3% (701) of relevant job posts

Spring

Spring is a comprehensive application framework that provides alternatives to many Java EE features offered by WildFly. While Spring applications can be deployed on WildFly, Spring Boot offers an alternative way of building applications.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 1% (1.6k) of relevant job posts

Apache Tomcat

Tomcat is a servlet container, a lighter alternative to full Java EE application servers like WildFly. It primarily handles web applications, whereas WildFly offers a broader range of Java EE features.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 2% (437) of relevant job posts

Spring Boot

Spring Boot is a framework that simplifies the creation of stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications. It competes with Wildfly as an alternative stack for running java applications.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 1% (1.8k) of relevant job posts

Wildfly Complementary Technologies

Keycloak

Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management solution. It can be integrated with WildFly to provide authentication and authorization services for applications.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 5% (550) of relevant job posts

JSF

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java EE standard for building user interfaces. WildFly provides a JSF implementation and it is a standard technology used for creating user interfaces with wildfly.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 4% (625) of relevant job posts

JPA

Java Persistence API (JPA) is a Java EE standard for object-relational mapping. WildFly provides a JPA implementation for managing persistent data.

mentioned alongside Wildfly in 2% (1k) of relevant job posts